Commonwealth v. WEBB’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stoltzfus (1975), Commonwealth v. Chambers (1991)
48 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Radford · Commonwealth v. EMBRY
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Beyond a reasonable doubt' is a legal standard. Medical causation and legal causation are qualitatively different in their application.... Whether the Commonwealth's evidence is sufficient to warrant a finding of causal connection is initially a legal question for the court, but whether it is persuasive beyond a reasonable doubt is for the jury to say. [ Comm v. Webb, 449 Pa. 490, 496 , 296 A. 2d 734, 737 (1972)].”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.